Like all Rotary Clubs, until the beginning of this Rotary Year (up to July 1, 2005) we operated along four "Avenues of Service". This year Rotary has changed the official organizational diagram a bit, but for the time being we can still talk about the previous set-up without confusing you or ourselves:

First Avenue:  SERVICE IN THE CLUB.  This is where we build friendships among members as a foundation and basis for all of the other service work we may perform locally, within our six state "District 4200", or in the context of Rotary's international presence around the world.

Second Avenue: SERVICE THROUGH OUR OCCUPATIONS. Projects in this  Avenue may include vocational fairs for students, worker  recognition programs for industry, and education in subjects such as Ethical Business Practices in which the Rotarian's Four-Way Test is the foundation.

Third Avenue:  SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY:  This is where we  concentrate  most of our efforts to be a  "service club" in which Rotary International's motto Service Before Self is made manifest to our neighbors.

In Cancun, most of our efforts are organized around the "Centro Comunitario Rotary International de Cancun", a  community center which we  constructed in  1994 in a working class  section of Cancun. At the   time it was constructed, the neighborhood had no social services infrastructure,  -or even running water,- available to the residents.

Through the Center, local residents have access to on-site Medical and Dental consultations, vocational training, general education, aerobics classes,and soon, access to legal and construction related orientation. Our Adult Education program is part of a new federal program to use satellite links and computers to move the students from "illiterate" to "E-literate".

The Vocational Training  which we have given includes:
a)  Beautician's Training  and
b)  Design and Sewing of Clothing.
c)  A locally supported Service Project being realized with the Universidad LaSalle de Cancún will soon make available computer  and secretarial skills training.

The Educational activities include talks given  by the Center's doctors, aerobics, English as a second language, and (through the state  government which uses our classrooms) Adult Literacy education and "main-lining" preparation for children who are older than other children at their level of education. These are typically street children or students who previously lived where school attendance was not possible.

Medical and Dental services have been given using equipment and furnishings loaned on a temporary basis.

The Fourth Avenue: SERVICE IN THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY. This is the means by which we collaborate with Rotary Clubs in other countries.  Some programs are  realized on an annual basis, such as International Study/Exchange Groups and university level Educational Scholarships for  undergraduate and graduate study.  During the 2002-2003 Year, the District sent not one but two study groups: one to Michigan, USA and one to a two-country District located in Washington state and British Columbia, Canada. We received the visiting groups in April. In previous years we received Study Groups from northern  Ontario, Canada;  and North Carolina, USA.)

During the 2002-2003 Year we sent hign school students to British Columbia, Canada and to Germany; we received students from Thailand and Germany. This was the first year we sent our students abroad, but it will not be the last. Previously, our students had participated only in the summer time short period exchanges.

In the 2003-04 Rotary Year we expanded this to 5 students (USA-2, Canada, Germany, Thailand)

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